Andrew Levitas, MD, is a retired professor of psychiatry and medical director of the Center of Excellence for Mental Health Treatment for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders of the Department of Psychiatry, Rowan University-SOM. He is a 1972 graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, did his medical internship at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York (1972-73), his residency in psychiatry at Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York (1973-75), and his Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado (1975-77), where he worked closely with the Denver Children’s Hospital Developmental Evaluation Clinic. He continued to work with the Developmental Evaluation Clinic and maintained a private practice in Denver specializing in psychiatric issues in persons with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders, where he was involved with the earliest work on Fragile X syndrome in the early 1980s.

Dr. Levitas was a member of the Volunteer Faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (1978-86). In 1988 he returned to the East as medical director of the Division for the Prevention and Treatment of Developmental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ, which in 2008 became the Center of Excellence for the Mental Health Treatment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders. The Center of Excellence continued as part of the Department of Psychiatry of Rowan University-SOM in Stratford, New Jersey when it devolved into its component regional parts. He retired in 2017.

Dr. Levitas is board certified in both psychiatry and child psychiatry. Dr. Levitas continues teaching and maintains a research interest in autism spectrum disorders especially as they relate to Fragile X and other intellectual disabilities syndromes, as well as other behavioral phenotype issues.